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What's clogging up more PCs these days than adware, bloatware, and malware combined? Digital snapshots, that's what. Everybody's got a digital camera, and isn't afraid to use it. Meanwhile, My Pictures fills up with folders labeled by dates or, worse, meaningless alphanumeric codes, and the idea that you're going to get around to sorting it all out "someday" slips into a running joke--as in it's a joke how quickly you run away from the job. Obviously, you need help, but let's start with all those pictures: What you really need is a free tool that can help you sort out your digital photos and images, preferably in batches, and maybe edit them a bit. BatchBlitz from SunlitGreen Software fits the description nicely.
BatchBlitz opens with a businesslike Windows-style interface sporting the familiar file menus and icon-based toolbar. There's a good Help file and some extras like Tool Tips and tutorials, but this program isn't difficult to figure out. You create Tasks using a series of templates. We created a New Task, chose the Standard Template, and clicked Source on the left-hand control panel. We browsed to a folder of snapshots; BatchBlitz displayed the directory in a tree view and the images as thumbnails in side-by-side panels. Next we clicked Output and chose a destination, a new folder created inside the original. The Actions icon called up a selection of processes, everything from renaming and resizing to cropping, converting formats, and adding text or other images. We chose to rename the pictures. We selected a series of images and clicked Source Images, and BatchBlitz loaded our selection into the bottom panel. We clicked the Start button, and a pop-up displayed progress bars for each file as it was completed, a very quick process. Next we clicked the Photo Editor icon. A perfectly competent image-editing tool popped up. This editor offered basic resizing, level adjustment, curves, and color controls; more than enough to quickly touch up photos. There's even a handy little Regex Tester for matching text strings, a nice complement to BatchBlitz's extensive filtering and searching options.
There's no shortage of free tools for sorting and editing digital pictures. BatchBlitz is one of the best we've tried, with a simple process, flexible capabilities, and useful extras, all for the bargain price of "free."
Publisher's Description
From SunlitGreen Software:
BatchBlitz is a free, powerful and handy digital photo categorizer, filter and batch editor. 1. BatchBlitz is a photo file categorizer: BatchBlitz enables you to categorize your photos by Exif/IPTC metadata. E.g. you can categorize your photos by the date they were taken, putting all photos in the same folder if they were taken on the same day. You can even pick out all photos rated 4 or 5 stars. 2. BatchBlitz is a photo file filter: If you have a huge stock of images, file filtering can become quite a headache. E.g. how do you find out all the files with a suffix number in the name? How do you find out all the portrait photos (i.e. height > width) with a minimum height of 800 pixels? BatchBlitz enables you to easily locate or filter such files. The filtering can be done interactively, or through a batch action. 3. BatchBlitz is a batch editor: BatchBlitz enables you to batch process your photos using customizable actions. You can save your action settings to a task file and reuse it later. Actions allow you to filter source files (using regular expressions, for example), rename and convert images, as well as add watermarks, resize/rotate canvas, apply automatic color corrections, etc. The instant preview will give you a better idea of the actual effects. In a typical batch processing task, you simply select some source images, specify where and how to store the output files, define one or more actions, and then start the task with a click. BatchBlitz Highlights: 1) extensive support for regular expression; 2) Exif/IPTC metadata accessible through macros; 3) highly customizable batch actions; 4) instant preview; 5) powerful photo editor.
What's new in this version: Version 3.2 build 2214 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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"Good product but needs a wizard or better directions."
Version: BatchBlitz 3.2.0.1380
Pros
Does what it says and is very fast at it.
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Not very good instructions, especially for anyone that is not technical minded.
Summary
Good product but needs a little improvement in the GUI button instructions.
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